BroadLight is Awarded a Key PON DBA Patent

New Patent Further Extends BroadLight`s IP Rights throughout the Entire GPON
Traffic Management System

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
BroadLight, the leading supplier of GPON Semiconductors and software, today
announced that it has been awarded patent number 7,573,897 by the US Patent
Office for a "Method and grant scheduler for cyclically allocating time slots to
optical network units." The patent applies to a grant scheduler and method for
cyclically allocating time slots to traffic container (T-CONTs) included in one
or more optical network units (ONUs) for transmitting respective data based on
known respective service level agreements (SLA) for each T-CONT.

"BroadLight has always been focused on improving our OLT design and put a
special effort on innovative Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation (DBA) algorithms,"
said Eli Weitz, CTO of BroadLight. "This systems-level knowledge and IP
protection is a major competitive advantage and our customers will benefit from
this in every IC design we deliver to the market."

About BroadLight

BroadLight is a fabless semiconductor company supplying semiconductor devices
and solutions to equipment vendors for FTTH applications around the globe. Its
technology spans from optical access to home networking which enables the
delivery of highly integrated, low-cost, end-to-end (E2E) solutions from the
central office to the customer premise. As a result, BroadLight is the leader in
GPON semiconductor devices and software and is currently powering some of the
world`s largest PON deployments.

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BroadLight Public Relations
Didi Ivancovsky, +972-3-5768111
didi@broadlight.com

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